Table of Contents

1 Striders, Runners, and Transporters.- 2 Knuckle-Walking and the Origin of Human Bipedalism.- 3 A New Hypothesis on the Origin of Hominoid Locomotion.- 4 Functional Interpretation of the Laetoli Footprints.- 5 Fossilized Hawaiian Footprints Compared with Laetoli Hominid Footprints.- 6 In What Manner Did They Walk on Two Legs? An Architectural Perspective for the Functional Diagnostics of the Early Hominid Foot.- 7 The Behavioral Ecology of Locomotion.- 8 Bipedalism in Homo ergaster: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Tibial Proportions on Locomotor Biomechanics.- 9 The Running-Fighting Dichotomy and the Evolution of Aggression in Hominids.- 10 Age, Sex, and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers.- 11 Mobility and the Locomotor Skeleton at the Foraging to Farming Transition.- 12 Uplifted Head, Free Hands, and the Evolution of Human Walking.

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From the reviews of the first edition: "The aim of this volume is to present a variety of analytical approaches that reveal how human bipedality facilitates and limits patterns of landscape use, mobility, and resource collection. a ] Importantly, given the diversity of the intended audiences a ] clearly stated hypotheses and illustrations make potentially complex anatomical analysis accessible to the non-morphologist." (Philip L. Reno, Human Ecology, Vol. 34, 2006)

From the reviews of the first edition: "The aim of this volume is to present a variety of analytical approaches that reveal how human bipedality facilitates and limits patterns of landscape use, mobility, and resource collection. ??? Importantly, given the diversity of the intended audiences ??? clearly stated hypotheses and illustrations make potentially complex anatomical analysis accessible to the non-morphologist." (Philip L. Reno, Human Ecology, Vol. 34, 2006)